Spanking hurts!
15th April 2007
I was just reading a rather interesting thread on a forum, elsewhere. The original poster, a switch, asked if anyone else shared his feelings about being on the receiving end of a spanking. He said that he loved the anticipation and that the loved the afterglow but while he was actually being beaten he was given to wondering why on Earth he'd let himself in for it.
It rather struck a chord with me. Much as I spend a lot of my life wanting to be hit with a big stick; when it does occur, the actuality of it is - not unsurprisingly, perhaps - painful.
I'm not, as far as I can tell, in any way masochistic. I don't bang nails into my kneecaps just so I can experience the resulting endorphin rush. If I stub my toe or slam my fingers in the door, I don't ever find myself thinking "Blimey! That was good fun, can I have another go?" It's more a case of swearing very loudly and running for the cold water tap or the ice-tray.
There are, I know, plenty of people that enjoy pain for its own sake but I'm simply not one of them and I rather suspect that that's the case with a great many spanking aficionados.
If a sore backside was the prime source of pleasure, we'd be able to satisfy our urges quite happily by standing too close to the fire or watching over-long movies in particularly uncomfortable cinemas. Now that would be a strange way to be!
I heard the news today, oh boy.
13th April 2007
It's a little ironic that my Friday the 13th should get under way with a rather strange and somewhat morbid bit of synchronicity.
I found myself thinking about the things that you hear about and the things that you don't hear about. How events of real significance don't always make it on to the news because they don't happen in what we might call a news-friendly manner. This chain of thought broadened out to things that may be of massive significance to some of us, but not to others. Would I, I found myself wondering, ever hear about the death of Kurt Vonnegut on the radio?
It was a strange thing to be thinking.
A couple of minutes later, I was looking on YouTube for something entirely unrelated. There was a clip on the front page of someone reading Vonnegut. I started watching it and my eyes drifted to one of the user comments, which mentioned the writer's
sadness at his death. A quick web-search revealed that Kurt Vonnegut's passing was reported in yesterday's New York Times.
Kurt Vonnegut is one of the very few people that I have ever described as a hero. Hero is never a word that I use lightly. If I had to draw up a list, he'd be right there at the top of it.
Vonnegut's life spanned some rather dark decades of human history. As a young man, he witnessed, at first hand, the firebombing of Dresden. Things don't come too much more unsettling than that. The world hardly became a better place after the madness of World War II and Vonnegut spent much of his life acutely depressed by the sheer insanity of the world around him.
Through it all, though, he wrote. He wrote with humour, with insight and, above all, with compassion.
Vonnegut had a rare power with words. He is the only author who could ever have me laughing my head off and crying my eyes out within the space of a paragraph -
something he did to me quite often, frequently in public places. If you ever want to look emotionally unstable, try reading Kurt Vonnegut on a busy train. Trust me, it works!
There is a deep-rooted and over-riding sense of humanity in Vonnegut's work and there has been many a time that it has saved my faith in the human race. He was a true giant of the literary world and a genuinely A1 human being. I will miss him greatly and I am sure that that is also true for millions of others.
God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut!
In Search of Spanking
12th April 2007
At HMR, we always say "we surf the 'net so you don't have to." We've just been off on one of regular web trawls in search of new things to bring you and happily, we've
found a couple of sites that we deem worthy of your attention. You'll be able to find out all about those in the very near future along with a couple of others that we already know about.
But, blimey! Do we have to wade through some chaff to find the wheat for your delectation? We look at hundreds of sites. Many, of course, are actually quite good but simply off-topic or not really on our wavelength. No problem there, we'd certainly expect that to be the case.
What amazes us is the number of sites that will bill themselves as something along the lines of "the ultimate, number one femdom spanking site" and turn out to be poorly worded single page affairs containing a two second video (yes, we really did see a two second video clip, earlier today!)
And please don't get us started on those horrid little AVS sites!
Now, we're not, for a second, claiming to be the ultimate anything. We've only been on-line for a fortnight and we're still an awful long way from where we want to be. We're a fraction of the size that we intend to be, right now, and our list of things to improve is, by no means, a short one. Our intention, needless to say, is to be the best one day but we will never regard ourselves as such. We aim to improve on a daily basis and if we keep on doing that, we know that we'll wind up being, at the very least, half-decent. The only two things that we will ever claim are that we are totally responsive to our community and that everything we do is born of a genuine love for our subject.
It's that love of the subject that's most strikingly absent in much of what we look at. An assumption that any old picture of a woman holding a cane will somehow do. Our focus is quality, if we don't think something's a bit special, we don't feature it. It's as simple as that. We've got far too much respect for our members and our visitors to try to fob you off with any old crap that we can lay our hands on.
So while we've had a largely frustrating day ploughing our way through the latest cyber-bilge; we have at least come away with a sense that while we may well be on the first steps of a very long journey; we are, we would like to think, moving in something approximating the right direction.
Ultimately, though, we need you to tell us what you think. What we're doing right
and what we're doing wrong. There's no point just wishing that we we're doing something differently when all you have to do is ask!
We welcome all comments and contributions to this site; you can be as much a part of this site as you want to be. The internet is an interactive tool and we aim to use it that way. Please share your thoughts with us. We're listening.
Sounds of Spanking
10th April 2007
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World-Wide Whacking
9th April 2007
I've always had a thing about spanking. It's fascinated me for as long as I can
remember. For many years, I thought this was something bizarrely unique to me. Nobody
else seemed to be terribly interested in it. Most people, it would seem, would actively
avoid it. It seemed a very strange thing to be interested in, altogether.
As I got a bit older, I started to realise that there was, somewhere out there,
a world of adult spanking. There were other people who shared my interest. But not,
it seemed, all that many of them. My favourite fixation had been promoted from being
unique to merely being obscure.
In recent times, though, things have changed. The Internet has come along and I've
come to realise that spanking isn't anywhere near as obscure as I'd thought it was.
It's all over the place! There are a whole stack of people who share my predilection! It's something that's really changed the way the whole way that I feel about
that aspect of my life. The world has become a far less lonely place for me over
the last few years.
I've just been looking back at some of our statistics for our first week on-line
and the geographical distribution of our visitors was quite an eye-opener. We were
expecting most of our visitors to be from the U.K. It's known as the English vice,
after all. We thought that there'd be a few from the U.S. and Australia where we
know spanking to be fairly popular but we weren't really expecting too many visits
from elsewhere. Looking through the list, though, I'm delighted to see people from
all over the world: Argentina, Thailand, Canada, Egypt, China, Mexico, Italy, Hong
Kong, South Africa, Poland, France, Spain, Germany, Hungary - the list goes on and
on. It's a fabulous thing to realise that something that was once my darkest secret
is actually something that's shared by people all around the world.
There are a great number of reasons that I could give as to why I think the Internet
is one of the true wonders of the world. Top of that list would be that we have
something that tells us that we are not alone. That is something priceless.
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Thought for the day
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